Search Results - subject:"Labour costs"

Determinants of Korean Outward Foreign Direct Investment : How Do Korean Firms Respond to the Labor Costs of Host Countries?

Ryu, Hanbyul; Jeong, Young SIk - 2022

Low cost of labor has been one of the major incentives that foreign firms invest in many developing countries. Yet, many developing countries including China and ASEAN have recently experienced a rapid increase in labor costs. Using the wage information provided by JETRO, this study examines how...

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Real estate expansion and manufacturing wage increase in China : from the perspective of labor reallocation

Gong, Rukai; Wang, Wenchun; Rong, Zhao; Yang, Rudai - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 2 (2022) 1, pp. 70-83

The massive expansion of China's real estate sector has raised manufacturing wage through the channel of reallocating low-skilled labor from manufacturing sectors to the real estate sector. Using data of manufacturing firms in 35 major cities from 2000-2007, we find that the expansion of the...

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The incidence of pension contributions : a panel based analysis of the impact of pension contributions on labor cost, wages and labor supply

Bosch, Nicole; Ewijk, Casper van; Micevska Scharf, Maja; … - 2022

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Does lowering housing provident fund contribution rate promote employment?

Tang, Jue - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 2 (2022) 3, pp. 190-201

The housing provident fund is an important part of payroll taxes. This paper quantifies its impact on employment. Although the fund helps enterprises with R&D to recruit more employees, it will also reduce the profitability of enterprises and cause enterprises to shrink their production scale,...

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Effect of irregular worker protection law on welfare benefits payment

Kim, MyoungHwan; Kim, GiSeung - In: Seoul journal of economics : SJE 35 (2022) 2, pp. 131-158

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National competitiveness and foreign direct investment in emerging Europe

Ranđelović, Saša; Martinović, Nikola - In: Ekonomske teme 60 (2022) 1, pp. 21-40

labour costs was strongly negative, while the results on the link with the Global Competitiveness Index was less conclusive …, they may need to put focus of their policies on efficiency-enhancing tax reforms (that would reduce the unit labour costs …The paper evaluates the relationship between the indicators of competitiveness of national economies (real unit labour …

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The Jordanian social contract : shifting from public employment as a source of social insurance to government-regulated social insurance

Razzaz, Susan; Selwaness, Irene N. - 2022

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Non-linearity between price inflation and labor costs : the case of Central European countries

Pavlova, Alena - 2022

This article explores the relationship between labor costs and price inflation under two conditions. Firstly, with linear assumption and classical techniques. Secondly, without assuming linearity, by a novel non-parametric machine learning method, namely gradient boosting. With quarterly data...

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Public wage and pension indexation in the euro area : an overview

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina (ed.) - 2022

If the responses of wages - both private and public - and of pensions to an increase in inflation lead to second-round effects, this can make an inflationary shock more persistent, especially in the presence of automatic wage and pension indexation. This occasional paper presents an overview of...

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Estimation of the economic opportunity cost of labor : an operational guide for Ghana

Othman, Abdallah; Miklyaev, Mikhail; Jenkins, Glenn P. - 2022

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